I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.

I love polite people, late September, weeping mortar, and my fantastic fands (fans/friends)

I looked like a 'Super Mario Bros.' Goomba. It's arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.

France has given us the best filmmakers and food.

If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.